Hi newcomers! We’ve been getting a bit of traffic today after The Millions mentioned on Twitter that all the stories and poems in our latest issue are by women*. Though the all-female-writers issue was a complete surprise to us, we’re pretty delighted about it and thought we should tell you a little bit about how … Continue reading →

Background: When Tin House did their whole send-a-reciept-from-a-book-store-to-get-in-our-slush-pile thing a while back, the literary blogs were aflutter as to whether slush piles were the new newspapers, i.e. obsolete. The following is a brief two-cents from John Cusick, literary agent and a founding editor of Armchair/Shotgun. — There’s been some chatter about abolishing the slush pile— … Continue reading →